Science: Disrupt

Episode 55: Losing the Nobel Prize

In this episode we chat to UC San Diego Physicist Brian Keating on his new book
'Losing the Nobel Prize'.
Brian Keating was in the running for a Nobel with the gravitational
waves discovery, but his Nobel hopes evaporated when what they had
really detected was the cosmologists nemesis ... interstellar
dust.

Brian talks us through the history of the Nobel, scientific
incentives, and the perception of the Nobel through time. We also
delve into some key things that the Nobel should change - such as,
nominating organisations or lab groups rather than an arbitrarily
selected three, having research categories that reflect science as
it is today, and of course address the tremendous gender disparity
in the nominations.

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